Saledovil
@Saledovil@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Student Parking 4 days ago:
Car transit is literally the least cost efficient method of travel, and only affordable because it’s heavily subsidized.
- Comment on Greedy bastards 3 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t the data center, but rather that the data center is being wasted on running AI. AI is a uniquely wasteful application, like crypto mining. If the data center does something actually useful, then it might provide utility greater than its expenses and externalities.
- Comment on I've never been in a situation where me having a gun would have made things bettter. 3 weeks ago:
Not so fun fact: Gun suicides are far more common than any other type of gun related death. Having a gun in the house is a big risk factor for suicide.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 5 weeks ago:
And somebody buying from the scammer could get a legitimate card, thus allowing the scammer to blend in.
- Comment on Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger 1 month ago:
What’s that, and why should it be destroyed?
- Comment on Hey look, a giant sign telling you to find a different job 1 month ago:
Million dollar company sounds impressive, but I don’t think that is impressive. Like twenty employees already imply a million or more in expenses annually, and require corresponding revenue to sustain.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
More like a terabyte.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
In addition, we haven’t even come up with a definition of intelligence.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
Well, we’re still at least one breakthrough away from AGI, and we don’t even know how it will go from there. Could be that humans are already near the maximum of what is possible intelligence wise. As in, the smartest being possible is not that much smarter than the average human. In which case, AGI taking over the world would not be a given.
Essentially, talking about the threat posed by ASI is like talking about the threat posed by Cthulhu.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 1 month ago:
AI companies are buying up all of the RAM in a futile bit to reach AGI.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
Yeah, that is a problem.
And thanks for the compliment.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
Well, if Grace is already well known, then her public key should be available.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
Bob would have to know and trust Grace beforehand. Grace could be the IRS, for example. The idea here being to have somebody who already knows your age vouch for your age.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
We could just make the middle man somebody who already needs that information, e.g. the IRS.
- Comment on Is it completely impossible to do age verification without compromising privacy? 1 month ago:
Here’s my idea: Bob gives Alice a token, assigning her an unique random number n. Alice goes to Grace and tells her, “Somebody assigned me number n, can you verify that I’m allowed?” Grace then writes: “User n is allowed, signed Grace”. Alice then takes this letter and shows it to Bob. Bob now knows that Alice is allowed, but nothing else. Grace only knows that somebody wanted to know that Alice is allowed, not who that somebody is.
Of note here: This system does nothing to protect against an allowed user helping a not allowed user to gain access, but I don’t think it’s possible to protect against traitorous users.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 month ago:
Same way you short anything else, you borrow it, sell it, and then buy it back once the price has dropped, and return it.
- Comment on OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates 1 month ago:
Investors could be bailed out. As in you invested 10e11$, so now the government gives you that money back.
- Comment on Scientific Exposure 2 months ago:
What does PI mean (first sentence of your post)?
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
Market cap is just share price times the number of shares. Can potentially be completely divorced from how well your company is actually doing. Conversely, a drop or rise in market cap doesn’t have to mean your company is doing better or worse. If you’re selling shovels, you still have the money when the music stops.
- Comment on Radon 2 months ago:
I bury corpses.
Hmm, that actually sounds like you run body disposal for organized crime.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang complains about stock price slide during all-hands meeting — says market did not appreciate company’s ‘incredible’ quarter 2 months ago:
In a gold rush, the real money is in selling shovels. But you have to take cash upfront.
- Comment on Refrigerator ads are finally here! 2 months ago:
What are said cool features?
- Comment on Controversial startup's plan to 'sell sunlight' using giant mirrors in space would be 'catastrophic' and 'horrifying,' astronomers warn 2 months ago:
Just launch a ton of ball bearings into orbit, and end space flight for ever. Or at least for the forseeable future.
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 months ago:
They’re the ones selling shovels in this gold rush, though.
- Comment on Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition 2 months ago:
Or a Bethesda style creation club is coming.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
The premise of the meme being discussed sorta is that God exists and can be asked questions.
- Comment on Fictional 2 months ago:
If it turned out they exited, wouldn’t you want to study them?
- Comment on Why would I buy this? 2 months ago:
Reviews are mixed: not a great start
More than not a great start: Only people who have bought the game are allowed to review it, so reviewers are already biased towards liking the game, because only somebody who thinks they would enjoy the game would spend money on it. It’s basically impossible to get a strong negative score by just being run of the mill awful. So “mixed” means that about 50% of people who though they would enjoy the game, didn’t, which is quite damning.
- Comment on Citizen Protest Halts Chat Control; Breyer Celebrates Major Victory for Digital Privacy 3 months ago:
The greatest German achievement since the Ottonian Dynasty.
- Comment on Recommendations for the current sale 3 months ago:
Let’s see:
- Vintage Story
- Cyberpunk 2077
- Rimworld
- Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
- etc.
Yeah, I think I’ll sit this one out.